Constructed in Portland, Maine
Agawam — the first U.S. Navy vessel to carry that name — was built at Portland, Maine, by George W. Lawrence. She was laid down in October 1862, launched on 21 April 1863, and commissioned on 9 March 1864, Commander Alexander Rhind in command. She was based on the same plans as Sassacus.
Read more about this topic: USS Agawam (1863)
Famous quotes containing the words constructed in, constructed and/or maine:
“We must be physicists in order ... to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Anyone who has ever constructed a “new heaven” has discovered the power to do it nowhere but in his own hell.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I have been oranging and fat,
carrot colored, gaped at,
allowing my cracked o’s to drop on the sea
near Venice and Mombasa.
Over Maine I have rested.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)